notching round tubing

[salvageclaus]

My neighbor gave us an oil field pipe rack that is going to make a perfect set of monkey bars for my son. All I have to do is weld in about ten 1"X18" round tubing for cross handles to grab onto. I don't have a notcher but I can get the round tubing. Is there any other way to do this?

[Broccoli1]

You can cut it on a Chop Saw or Band saw; you cut the pipe at an angle, flip it over and cut again.

Sorry don't have any pics here at home to show. There is a thread here somewhere with the angles needed.

[Broccoli1]

http://www.hobartwelders.com/mboard/...ad.php?t=16338

There's a pic in this thread

[salvageclaus]

That is an awesome way to do it.
Thanks for the info.

[BadDog]

Here is a description of how to do accurate "notches" with a chop saw. I do it all the time with roll cages, bumpers, and all sorts of stuff...

[wroughtnharv]

My neighbor gave us an oil field pipe rack that is going to make a perfect set of monkey bars for my son. All I have to do is weld in about ten 1"X18" round tubing for cross handles to grab onto. I don't have a notcher but I can get the round tubing. Is there any other way to do this?

I have pipe notchers, both Vogel and Williams Low Buck. But on little stuff like one inch I use a grinder. Especially with heavy wall like that tubing you're talking about.

For a newbie the best way I know of to figure out a notch for any size of pipe is to butt the two pieces together. Measure the gap at the widest point. On one inch it'll be about five sixteenths on an inch.

You want to cut out that five sixteenths of an inch from the middle of your notch to about one third down. I've found the best fit comes when you have one third notched, one third full length, and one third notched. I've successfully used this for pipe up to eight inch in diameter.

To figure out your length of material before the notch measure your distance between your rails. Then add your you measurement to be cut doubled. Let's say your monkey bars frame has an eighteen inch gap. You'd cut your connecting pieces eighteen and five eighths. (five sixteenths and five sixteenths equals five eighths)

Thirty one years ago I made my first real project all by myself. It was a combination monkey bars and slide for my son.

[wroughtnharv]

Here's an interesting vendor that sent me a fax yesterday. www.projecttoolanddie.com

They have a die for six inch pipe. Who ever makes that cut better have plenty of backside.